Re: validator won't return json

Oh, and thanks very much for provoking me to look again.  I must have done
something wrong.  Not sure if it's javascript library I'm using that messed
up or what, but now I know it can work, and if it doesn't, I'll do it
manually.


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Trenton D. Adams <trenton.d.adams@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Yeah, I don't know what I did wrong, but I'm going to try again at some
> point. I took what you did, and tried it manually.  If you paste this into
> telnet on port 80, it works great, and tells me that I did not end the 'p'
> tag.
>
> telnet validator.w3.org 80
>
> POST /check HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: PECL::HTTP/1.7.4 (PHP/5.4.6-1ubuntu1)
> Host: validator.w3.org
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 160
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
>
> fragment=%3Cdiv%3E%0A%3Cp%3E%20invalid%20document%20not%20ending%20p%20tag%0A%3C%2Fdiv%3E&output=json&doctype=XHTML%201.0%20Transitional&prefill_doctype=xhtml10
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Trenton D. Adams <
> trenton.d.adams@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I tried the fragment parameter as you did as well.  Perhaps there was a
>> typo; I'll try again.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Jon Cram <jon@webignition.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I recall when first running a local install of the W3C HTML validator
>>> there was some trial and error involved in getting JSON output.
>>>
>>> It certainly does work. If it's not working for you my best guess is
>>> that the POST requests you're making aren't quite to the validator's liking.
>>>
>>> I just ran a local validation that successfully returned a JSON
>>> response. At the following URL is the exact raw HTTP request I issued:
>>> http://pastebin.com/npX42TtE
>>>
>>> Check how this compares to the HTTP requests you're making.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/03/13 19:20, Trenton D. Adams wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any developers on here that might know what the problem is here?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Trenton D. Adams <
>>>> trenton.d.adams@gmail.com <mailto:trenton.d.adams@gmail.**com<trenton.d.adams@gmail.com>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Before I file a bug, I thought I would ask why this does not
>>>>     work.  I sent the output=json, and then url encoded the
>>>>     uploaded_file as well.  I know
>>>>     http://validator.w3.org/docs/**api.html#soap12format<http://validator.w3.org/docs/api.html#soap12format>says that the
>>>>     uploaded_file should be multi-part form-data, but that also did
>>>>     not seem to return the json; unless I got the syntax wrong.  If I
>>>>     use the "uri" option instead, it appears to work fine.  In either
>>>>     of the two failed cases, there are special headers returned
>>>>     indicating that the validation of the fragment failed, how many
>>>>     errors, how many warnings, etc.
>>>>
>>>>     Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     http://validator.w3.org/check
>>>>
>>>>     POST /check HTTP/1.1
>>>>     Host: validator.w3.org <http://validator.w3.org>
>>>>
>>>>     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0)
>>>>     Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
>>>>     Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
>>>>     Accept-Language:
>>>>     en-CA,en;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en-**gb;q=0.7,en-US-x-Hixie;q=0.6,**
>>>> fr-FR;q=0.4,fr;q=0.3,eo-EO;q=**0.2,eo;q=0.1
>>>>     Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
>>>>     Connection: keep-alive
>>>>     Content-Type: application/x-www-form-**urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
>>>>     Referer:
>>>>     http://reuben.pc.athabascau.**ca:8080/aucm/servlet/**
>>>> DispatcherServlet?action=**examRequest<http://reuben.pc.athabascau.ca:8080/aucm/servlet/DispatcherServlet?action=examRequest>
>>>>
>>>>     Content-Length: 17174
>>>>     Origin: http://reuben.pc.athabascau.**ca:8080<http://reuben.pc.athabascau.ca:8080>
>>>>     Pragma: no-cache
>>>>     Cache-Control: no-cache
>>>>     output=json&uploaded_file=%0A%**0A%0A%0A%0A%0A%0A%0A%3Cblah-**
>>>> blah-encoded-fragment
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>>>     Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:34:11 GMT
>>>>     Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
>>>>     X-W3C-Validator-Recursion: 1
>>>>     X-W3C-Validator-Status: Invalid
>>>>     X-W3C-Validator-Errors: 4
>>>>     X-W3C-Validator-Warnings: 23
>>>>     Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
>>>>     Connection: close
>>>>     Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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